Re: Extraversion in System.map?

[Keith Owens]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:07:23 +0900 (JST), 
Tom Holroyd <[e-mail]> wrote:
>As part of my penance for using the wrong System.map file in the
>readprofile data I sent out, I have prepared a patch to readprofile
>that makes it check the version of the file against the kernel.
>
>Much to my dismay, the extraversion code ('-pre6' for example) does
>not appear to be anywhere in System.map.  Or am I wrong?  If not, why
>not, and can this be fixed?  After all, symbols can and do change
>between -pre versions.

System.map only contains the numeric kernel version.  After all, it is
difficult to convert 2.4.19-pre6 to Version_132115-pre6 when symbols
cannot contain '-'.

Don't reinvent the wheel, use ksymoops -s save.map.  ksymoops has all
the verification code that I can think off, -s writes the merged map
including module information.